Oyma offers a robust free tier with full local Markdown editing, wikilinks, visual tables, and basic audio recording. Advanced features—such as extended on-device Whisper transcription and AI templates—are available via transparent one-time purchase or professional license.
Sustainable, Honest Software Pricing
The software industry has largely abandoned consumer respect in favor of predatory software-as-a-service (SaaS) models. Users are forced into indefinite monthly subscriptions for basic desktop tools, paying hundreds of dollars per year for software that runs on their own hardware.
Oyma is built on a sustainable, transparent business model designed to align incentives with users rather than recurring-revenue metrics.
Core Free Tier: Forever Functional
The fundamental capabilities of Oyma are free to use without expiration or feature crippling:
- Complete Markdown Note Editor: Full CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown support.
- Fast Full-Text Search: Sub-10ms search across your local vault powered by SQLite FTS5.
- Bidirectional Linking: Graph navigation, wikilinks
[[Note]], and backlink panels. - Basic Meeting Capture: Direct ScreenCaptureKit audio recording for personal review.
- Zero Ads, Zero Data Selling: The free tier contains no advertising, tracking beacons, or commercial data collection.
Professional Edition: Advanced Productivity
For professionals who rely on Oyma for high-volume meeting workflows and automated synthesis, the Pro edition unlocks advanced local capabilities:
- Unlimited On-Device Whisper Transcription: Run large-v3 Whisper speech models locally on the Apple Silicon Neural Engine without per-minute transcription fees.
- Automated AI Synthesis: One-click executive summaries, action item extraction, and custom prompt templates using local Ollama models or BYOK cloud keys.
- Advanced Export Pipelines: Export notes and meeting minutes to styled PDF, Word DOCX, and presentation slides.
- Network Egress Audit Suite: Full packet inspection and connection verification logging.
No Recurring Hostage Fees
We believe you should own your tools. Your notes are never held hostage behind an unpaid subscription bill: even if you never upgrade to Pro, your files remain 100% accessible, editable, and searchable on your disk forever.
Sustainable Economics vs. Predatory SaaS
The modern productivity market is dominated by venture-backed SaaS startups that subsidize initial growth with free cloud storage, only to force users into steep recurring price hikes once years of notes are trapped in their proprietary systems.
Oyma rejects this model. Because your documents and recordings live on your own hardware, we do not incur ongoing cloud hosting, bandwidth, or database storage costs on your behalf.
- Zero Hostage Dynamics: We have zero recurring infrastructure expenses tied to your vault storage, allowing the core local editor to remain free forever.
- Predictable Commercial Upgrades: Advanced capabilities—such as specialized speech models and custom prompt engineering suites—are unlocked through simple, transparent licenses without perpetual subscription traps.
- Academic and Open Source Access: Students, independent researchers, and open-source contributors can use the core capabilities of Oyma indefinitely without financial barriers.
